Drooling Iguana wrote:
Of course, even given time dilation, it would be pretty difficult to travel between stars at 1.5c in so shot a time that Luke doesn't age visibly in that period.
Time dilation doesn't play into how much Luke aged, he wasn't on the ship.
And without knowing how far the Falcon actually travelled, we frankly have nothing to base their travel time on. For all we know they were a measly lightweek out of Bespin when they dropped off the ISD.
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Drooling Iguana wrote:
Of course, even given time dilation, it would be pretty difficult to travel between stars at 1.5c in so shot a time that Luke doesn't age visibly in that period.
Time dilation doesn't play into how much Luke aged, he wasn't on the ship.
And without knowing how far the Falcon actually travelled, we frankly have nothing to base their travel time on. For all we know they were a measly lightweek out of Bespin when they dropped off the ISD.
My point was that, while time dilation can explain why Han & co. didn't age if their trip was a long one, it wouldn't explain why Luke didn't, thus placing some limits on how long they could have taken.
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Drooling Iguana wrote:
My point was that, while time dilation can explain why Han & co. didn't age if their trip was a long one, it wouldn't explain why Luke didn't, thus placing some limits on how long they could have taken.
I see. My mistake.
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If you stopped the nuclear fusion in a star it would take millions of years for the star to collapse and the undergo the reaction which would produce the nova. What you saw in the movie was a huge solar flare.
Question: Could a solar flare really destroy a planet like it did in the movie?
Doesn't it take 2.4e32j to destroy a planet? The solar flare would have to be way way more powerful than that due to the inverse-square law.[/quote]
OmegaGuy wrote:Question: Could a solar flare really destroy a planet like it did in the movie?
Nothing could destroy a planet like it appeared in that movie. If I recall correctly, the planet exploded into a shower of solid debris, even though it should be almost all liquid or gas. It seems to me like what we saw there was actually Picard's imagination of what was happening as he was swept up into the Nexus.
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